According to this AP report, the Atlanta Falcons have opened camp, and former Alabama Crimson Tide quarterback John Parker Wilson is the number three quarterback. Read the entire report on the Falcons’ camp below. Powered by Mochila
Archive | July, 2010
DePriest says it’s Bama
What’s the difference between a flash in the pan and a dynasty? A flash in the pan has a great year. A dynasty is born when one great year after another is stacked one atop the other. Today Alabama head coach Nick Saban added to his stockpile of talent in Tuscaloosa for the coming years [...]
Alabama football sets Fan Day
Fresh from the University of Alabama comes this official release. Just so you won’t miss the most important part: “Soft drinks, water and several food items will be available for a special Fan Day price of 50% off the regular gameday prices.” On to the entire release: Alabama Football’s Fan Day Set for Sunday, August [...]
Here come the 2011 bye weeks prior to Alabama
Ole Miss released its finalized 2011 schedule according to the Clarion Ledger’s David Brandt. Sure enough, the Rebels decided to take a bye before playing Alabama on October 15. The Ole Miss schedule looks like this, according to the report: Sept. 3 Boise State Oxford Sept. 10 Southern Illinois Oxford Sept. 17 Vanderbilt Nashville Sept. [...]
Alabama’s Rolando McClain inks deal with Raiders
Former Alabama Crimson Tide football star Rolando McClain signed a deal with the Oakland Raiders. The AP has the details, “The Raiders got the deal done with their starting middle linebacker before taking the field for their first training camp practice on Thursday morning. It was not immediately known if McClain would make it to [...]
ITK: If you can’t win it, buy it
With USC being forced to vacate the BCS title due to NZAA sanctions, the Abarn marketing field team, otherwise known as AU beat writers around the state (and those that don’t like Saban because he’s mean) are working overtime to write or say something…anything…to shift public opinion. Folks, it is the most pathetic exercise I [...]
Chiefs sign Alabama’s Javier Arenas
Former Alabama Crimson Tide football player Javier Arenas signed a contract with the Kansas City Chiefs. Other former SEC football players drafted by the Chiefs include Ole Miss Rebels’ Dexter McCluster and Tennessee’s Eric Berry. From the AP, “The Chiefs have signed both of their second-round draft picks, wide receiver Dexter McCluster and defensive back [...]
UA-bound teen shoots 57
From the AP, Bobby Wyatt shot a 57 at the Alabama Boys State Junior Championship. The University of Alabama-bound teen, who turns 18 this weekend, had 12 birdies, an eagle and five pars Wednesday on the par-71, 6,628-yard course at the Country Club of Mobile. His birdie putt hung on the lip on the 18th [...]
WHEW! Cody passes conditioning test for Ravens
Former Alabama Crimson Tide football player Terrence Cody was cleared to practice with his new team the Baltimore Ravens. The story from the AP: Cody conquered the drill on Wednesday morning at 7 a.m. and was removed from the Physically Unable to Perform list before participating in his first NFL training camp practice. Along the [...]
Pac-10 in New York: New name, new attitude
It is a new day in college football thanks to expansion. But can the Pac-10 compete with the SEC, Big Ten and Little 12? It is trying to gain attention from the media with a new attitude. The AP gives a view of what is going on in this story. From the AP: Say goodbye [...]
NFL: Owens reaches deal with Bengals
In NFL news from the AP, A year after they were featured on HBO’s “Hard Knocks,” the Bengals have scripted their own reality show. T.O. and Ocho. Two self-conscious stars, one NFL team. How will they fit? How will it work? Which receiver will provide most of the drama? And, more importantly, will any of [...]
Expansion: Pac 10 to become Pac 12
The Pac-10 can count. Will the Big Ten follow? From the AP: The Pac-10 will become the Pac-12 as soon as Colorado and Utah officially join the league. The 95-year old league once known as the Pacific 8 announced Tuesday that it would change the conference’s name when the two new members join. Colorado has [...]
RECORD BREAKING SPIN FROM AL.COM
A sample front of a redesigned Birmingham News Was today the best day for pro-Auburn spin coming out of the al.com, err Pravda? Perhaps. And that is saying something for a website that featured pro-Auburn beat writers like Charles Goldberg and Phillip Marshall. First today was Kevin Scarbinsky’s campaign to name Auburn the 2004 national [...]
Rethinking 2004: Utah should be champion
Football Writers may get it right, name Utah 2004 national champion Wait. Of course, that wasn’t what the Birmingham News wrote. The News’ scribe has launched the campaign to name Auburn the 2004 national champion. But why Auburn and not Utah? “The FWAA has an admirable record of independent thinking,” according to the Birmingham News. [...]
Waiting on a Les Miles comment
A new oil crisis. It must mean we need a Les Miles comment. Powered by Mochila
Reason for Auburn to fear 2010: defense
Remember how bad Auburn’s defense was last season? If you are an Auburn fan you can’t forget it. It was disgusting. It had to make the Old Guard like Pat Dye physically sick. But there is always hope it will get better. Right? Maybe not. Pat Forde at Little 12 (Big 12) Media Days reported [...]
Former Alabama player flunks conditioning test
Former Alabama Crimson Tide football player Terrence Cody was placed on the Physically Unable to Perform list by the Baltimore Ravens as training camp practice begins. From the AP: Baltimore Ravens second-round draft pick Terrence Cody failed his conditioning test Tuesday and was not permitted to participate in the team’s first training camp practice. The [...]
Briefing: Tuesday’s Alabama & SEC links
Saban vs. Meyer Bright House Sports Network’s J.B. Long takes a look at the rivalry between Alabama Crimson Tide coach Nick Saban and Florida Gator coach Urban Meyer. Long explains, “With a combined four BCS National Championships and three of the last four SEC crowns between them, Florida’s Urban Meyer and Alabama’s Nick Saban represent [...]
Expansion: ‘It’s a fluid situation’
More on the conference expansion situation from the perspective of the ACC comes from this Boston Globe story: “He said that while there was no definitive plan in place, the ACC was ready to react if the expansion had been greater. Speculation about the Big Ten adding two, or perhaps even four schools, continues to [...]
NFL: Can the Cowboys do it?
For those who also watch the NFL, it seems that the Cowboys quarterback has improved. If the Cowboys are going to make the Super Bowl this season Tony Romo will have to continue to play as well as he did during the push toward the division championship last season. And he played very well last [...]
SUED! Lane Kiffin & USC hit with lawsuit
From the AP, “The Tennessee Titans are suing Southern California and coach Lane Kiffin for ‘maliciously’ luring away assistant running backs coach Kennedy Pola a week before training camp opens. Tennessee Football Inc., the company that owns the Titans, filed the lawsuit Monday in Davidson County Chancery Court against both the university and Kiffin.” We [...]
Is football more important than our rights?
Alabama expending public funds to persecute artist The Daniel Moore saga continues. Bob Gambacurta revealed some startling information about the case. According to the report, the University of Alabama has spent somewhere between $1.5 and $2 million in its attack on Moore. And a portion of it is public money. Moore raised one of the [...]
Briefing: Monday Alabama & SEC football links
There were many interesting stories coming out of SEC Media Days. However, nothing tops what was going on out in San Diego. Wow. I’m so going to Comic Con next year. On to some interesting links for today. First, Kevin Scarbinsky can be worth reading at times. Sunday’s column was one of those times. He [...]
Tennessee benefits most from agent scandal
My illustration above best tells the story of the headline, but allow me to go a little further. While Bryce Brown’s “hold out” continues to hold the University of Tennessee hostage, and in the wake of UT’s moonshine brawl at a Knoxville bar and subsequent revelation of football player “VIP status” there and possibly other [...]
Brett Favre is a drama queen?
What is it about Brett Favre that has some fans and columnists so upset? If you don’t like Favre, then this AP columnist will make your day. Such as this sample: “At some point all eyes will turn to the skies to see if the private jet sent by Vikings owner Zygi Wilf is on [...]
Saving the Little 12
Time to suck-up to Big XII commissioner Dan Beebe. And the Associated Press doesn’t disappoint in this 1,500-word profile of the “Savior of the Big 12.” I find the whole thing puzzling. Take this quote from Beebe, “I think my characteristics were needed in this time,” he said. “Different people’s characteristics may be needed in [...]
ACC UPDATE: ‘Strong commitment’ from schools
From the AP: A month earlier, all the talk in college circles centered around the possibility of another round of conference realignment, with concerns that uncertainty in the Big 12 and expansion by the Pac-10 and Big Ten would set off a chain reaction that would reshape the Football Championship Subdivision. There were lingering questions [...]
Lane Kiffin does it again!
From the AP: “I am very disappointed in Lane Kiffin’s approach to this,” Fisher told the newspaper. “Typically speaking when coaches are interested in hiring or discussing potential employment from coaches on respective staffs there is a courtesy call made from the head coach or athletic director indicating there is an interest in talking to [...]
Ranking the SEC Media Days Coach Appearances
With another SEC Media Days in the books, a rather interesting article surfaces today about how all the coaches did. Interestingly, the thought is that Robbie Caldwell stole the show at his first…and likely his last…SEC Media Days. Here are some highlights: 3. Nick Saban (Alabama) – Gave the media exactly what it wanted: juice. [...]
Nutt, Masoli follow the Camputer
Jeremiah Masoli is now a Rebel. Well, it appears he was a rebel of sorts before he ever made it onto the Mississippi campus. The most hysterical part of the whole process was the “appearance” the good Reverend Houston Nutt was putting on for all of us. We were led to believe he was “taking [...]